KX Riders
General => Riding Stories => Topic started by: BadDirtBike on January 29, 2010, 01:59:49 AM
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I ride a 1999 KX 500, I have recently installed a V-Force 3 reeds and a 3/8 inch spacer, rejetted the carb and put a pro circuit pipe and silencer on as well as a new O-ring chain and a 49 tooth rear sprocket. I also have done both front a rear fender mods and a Clarke desert tank in Black. I will add pictures when my 10 post are up.
I had also just ordered the new rear fender pack with some new tools. I have never took my keys with me before this day, I thought they were safer in the bag with me. so we had rode for a couple of hours before my (BadDirtBike) and I meen that in a LOVING way! lost a nut holding my clutch on. I heard a sound and stopped and I start to pull my clutch in and it was GONE!! so my son and I walked around and found the handle, but could not find the bolt or nut, so my son opens my fender pack and gets my new 3 way tool out and pulls a bolt from my shroud and tank and drops it in, we get back on the biks and my son pulls out in front and takes the lead. now he does not like to lead and this is a really REALLY RARE thing for him to do. but he knows Croom a little better then I do and wanted to get back to the Escaled to get my clutch fixed. I get off my bike and my heart hit the ground! MY FENDER BAG IS GONE!!!
We get back on the bikes and try to retrace or ride all the way back to where my clutch fell off. We rode and rode and rode and all this was with my clutch not fixed becouse my tools were in the Escalde.
We go back to the truck and get gas . Man I am glad we both have water packs on our back.
We had not seen a Ranger go by since I lost the keys, so we rode up to the front of the park and asked the Ranger if anybody had returned a fender pack. He asked me some questions and handed me my fender pack with the KEYS still there!!
THANK YOU to who ever turn them in!!!
We rode back to the truck and got something else to drink and eat, then we got back on our bikes and rode the trails for a couple more hours.
I hope somebody learns from my mistake!!! BOLT THAT BAG ON!!!
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Bad, I am glad you got your pack back. I like these stories because it reinforces my belief that there are a lot of good and honest people in world! BO
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Blueoval,
Yes, there are still good honest people in this world! Many of them ride.
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I clip the truck key on my pants, and I have a key tyrapped under the rear bumper. That way if the key gets ripped off my pants, I can still get home.
I really is amazing how hard it is to remember to tyrap a key under your vehicle, I'll bet it took me six months to "get around " to it.
By the way, on many cars you can tyrap a transponder key under the column cover, and then use non transponder ( cheap ) key to operate the vehicle. This will allow you to make many spare keys cheaply. I learned this from a rental car company.
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I was out riding with some friends a couple of months ago and some people came up to our trucks and asked if we had lost a cell phone they had found laying in the trail. I hadn't but I asked if they could get a number off the phone. I called that number to get the ladies husband. Turns out they had lost it two or three days before. Lucky for them it had not rained and that it still had enough power to read the number.
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Good topic. What happened is a distinct possibility if you carry you keys with you. I normally hide my keys 2-300 yards away from the truck is a good spot where whomever came riding with me in my truck knows the exact location. In a schenario where you get injured or lost your riding buddy may need the truck to get you or help. Complicates things if the keys are on your person. Last season, the one time I didn't do this I left my fanny pack (with keys) where we stopped for a break. Luckily I noticed fairly soon, marked the loc on GPS then continued riding and eventually made our way back. Cam.
ps. My fanny pack came new with a plastic outdoors type snap buckle. I lost it first ride and had to search a fair bit to find it. I replaced the buckle with a positive metal type from an old safety belt. See my "fanny pack tool pouch" thread for pics. Cam.
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thinking of going to brooksville on sunday . are you going to be there
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I was the one who found your keys.........do I get something like a $200,000 reward or something? :-D